[cgiapp] CAP Dispatch and encoded backslashes

[B. Estrade]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 03:45:15PM +1000, Ron Savage wrote:
> Hi Brett
> 
> On 07/06/12 13:42, B. Estrade wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 01:17:12PM +1000, Ron Savage wrote:
> >> Hi Brett
> >>
> >> On 07/06/12 05:37, B. Estrade wrote:
> >>> I am having an issue with CAP Dispatch that seems to be rearing its
> >>> ugly head when I send, as part of the route, serialized JSON data.
> >>> The issue is that I have a value with a backslash in it.
> >>>
> >>> I am pretty sure the URL parsing done by Dispatch is splitting on this
> >>> backslash, but I though that it wouldn't be a problem since it's being
> >>> sent as an encoded string.
> >>>
> >>> When I don't include this one field, it works; when I do, I get a 404
> >>> thrown by Dispatch.
> >>
> >> The documentation says:
> >> To get the name of the application module the path is split on
> >> backslahes (C</>).
> >>
> >> Clearly (?) it means slash (/), not backslash (\).
> >
> > You are right, it's not the backslash, it's the forward slash. I saw
> > that part in the docs, but I was not sure how to include that in the
> > serialized string; I assumed if it was uri encoded it'd be fine.
> 
> So the next question is: Does the problematic / get converted to %2f? If 
> so, I'd expect CAD to ignore it. If not, why not?
> 
> I'm thinking that if not, you'll have to use JS attached to the submit 
> button to capture the value and encode it yourself.

It is encoded, and I am using YUI 3's Y.IO to submit a POST request. 

The whole, serialized JSON encoded is:

%7B%22id%22%3A%228734%22%2C%22name%22%3A%22heello%20the%20dog%22%2C%22email%22%3A%22estrabd%40gmail.com%22%2C%22phone%22%3A%22123456%20%22%2C%22phoneext%22%3A%2278%22%2C%22status%22%3A%22inactive%22%2C%22locale%22%3A%22local%22%2C%22isexempt%22%3Anull%2C%22timezone%22%3A%22American%2FChicago%22%2C%22isdevadmin%22%3Anull%2C%22last_modified%22%3A%222012-06-07%2009%3A36%3A05%22%2C%22adminlvl%22%3A%22-1%22%2C%22vendcode%22%3Anull%2C%22username%22%3A%22iamthefrog%40gmail.com%22%2C%22endday%22%3Anull%2C%22administaffid%22%3A%22-1%22%2C%22startday%22%3Anull%7D

You'll note the offending character at "American%2FChicago".

Thanks,
Brett

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